After writing that poem about the giant hill I have to walk up everyday, I decided I would try to get more into poetry. Because of this I went and looked at the different requirements for a real ode and found that you usually write one in iambic meter. I then had to learn what that was.
It is, as most of you probably know, a way to make your poems more lyrical and easier to sing. (Ok, I don't actually know that. I am just guessing.) There are also three other kinds of ways to structure your poems meter. They are listed below with how to structure them.
Iambic --> unstressed syllable, stressed syllable
Trochaic --> stressed, unstressed
Dactylic --> stressed, unstressed, unstressed
Anapestic --> unstressed, unstressed, stressed
And depending on the number of them used, makes up the meter. (i.e. monometer=one set, pentameter=five sets, octameter=eight sets)
I have written a few short couplets using the different meters and they are below. Although, I honestly have no idea how to tell if a syllable is stressed or not or any rules about them, so these are really just good tries. (I really can't even tell the difference between syllables sometimes.)
"Hello" (Iambic Couplet, Pentameter)
I am / af-raid / to say / good day / my dear,
To end / is such / a sad / be-gin -/- ing here.
"Cigarettes" (Trochaic Couplet, Pentameter)
Si-lent / the smell / cig-arr -/- ettes bring / ch-oke
The life / out of / the liv -/- ing soul, / soak-ed.
[A lot of people were smoking near me while I was writing.]
"Falling" (Dactylic Couplet, Monometer)
So I fall
Last of all.
"Meter" (Anapestic Couplet, Tretameter)
All me-ter / is ra-ther / diff-i-cult,
I th-ink / it is fun / as well though.
Until next time...
Embrace the Odd,
Caitlin
"The mellow sweetness of pumpkin pie off a prison spoon is something you will never forget." -Mitchell Burgess
No comments:
Post a Comment